New Delhi: As many as 10 Indian-Americans will try their luck at the state level in the elections to the US House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday, a contest on which the community is keeping a close watch.
Unlike two years ago when there was a lot of interest in Louisiana where Bobby Jindal made it to the House of Representatives as the first representative of the Indian American community in some five decades, this time for the most part the attention is at the state level.
Some veterans like Kumar Barve from Maryland are expected to breeze through not because of the Grand Old Party taking a hammering at the polls but on his own accomplishments at the State Level since 1990 when he first entered politics.
Yet at the national level there is interest in Pennsylvania where a maverick 31-year-old Raj Peter Bhakta is on the Republican ticket trying to unseat a Democratic incumbent.
Bhakta has made news not only by being a star in Donald Trump's reality show The Apprentice, but also in his seeking to prove the point that America's borders are pretty lax when it comes to enforcement.
Bhakta recently made news - riding an elephant and along with a mariarchi band - crossing a point in the Rio Grande without being hauled up by enforcement officers.
Bhakta is a Republican novice with tough immigration credentials trying to make it on November 7.
But by and large the focus on and of the Indian American community has been at the purely local level races.
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